Kenneth Slessor

Kenneth Slessor was born on 27 March 1901 in Orange, New South Wales, under the name Kenneth Adolphe Schloesser. A journalist at the Sydney Sun from 1918, he moved to the Melbourne Punch, then to Smith's Weekly, of which he became editor in 1935. An official war correspondent from 1940, he followed the Mediterranean campaigns, then New Guinea, and resigned in 1944 in protest against the army's public relations service. He was then a critic at the Sun, then at the Daily Telegraph, and died in North Sydney on 30 June 1971.

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